Appreciate ya brotha. Definitely a top notch poster in my book. Tough pill to swallow, but just have to take a step back from the game and think about everything that went right this season... then remember the very factual statement: This will potentially be the least talented roster that Smart has for the next 3-4 years... after that, all bets are off, since recruiting can ebb and flow (no one has shown Saban's level of consistency there yet... Meyer close). Based on what we've seen thus far though, it certainly looks like Kirby is prepared to get it done... he's not strictly selling playing time the way a lot of early head coaches are...

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I know the officiating was atrocious two nights ago. I hate that things weren't called as they should have been because those refs get paid a shite ton of money to get it right and they failed. Hopefully the CFP committee takes a long hard look at how they determine who calls these games moving forward.

Thanks for the honesty bud. I think this is the single weirdest thing I'm seeing from the majority of Bama posters... it's like they're somehow afraid that admitting this makes the game/accomplishment less than or something... frick that. Y'all had last year's game taken away with an imbalanced game the opposite direction... shite happens, gotta take the breaks when you can.

In watching the NFL playoffs last weekend, they commented on having a secondary officiating crew essentially watching from the sidelines who whistled in a dead ball and called a missed procedural penalty of some kind. I know there is a delicate balance of trying to keep the games moving, but once it gets to the playoffs, I don't believe they actually care about game length... it would seem that getting the calls *right* would trump speed at that point.

None of that changes the fact that our coaches got too tentative, or that we somehow ignored that Bama had clearly gameplanned to stop Chubb quite well, but Michel was having success... but perhaps more surprisingly, we seemed to have no gameplan for what happened if Tua got inserted, which I'd say 75% of message board posters with a brain knew there was a good chance if Bama's offense struggled again. Learning experience I guess... but a really costly one.